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Textile Tr'abrio.y

Patented May 4,1880.

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N.PE|F.RS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. wAsHmGTBN. lD CA UNTTTD STATES PATENT Ormea ALEXANDER M. FYFE, OF UTIGA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE GLOBE VVOOLEN COMPANY, OF SAMEPLAOE.

TEXTILE FABRIC,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 227,241, dated May 4, 1880.

Application led January 22, 1880.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER M. FYFE, of Utica, in the county of Oneida and State of `New York, have invented certain new and `useful Improvements in Textile Fabrics, of

factured for overcoatings with a lining repre-- senting a regular repetition of the same pat.

tern, the same being either thrown up by the weaver or by laying variously-colored threads side by side, so as to form a striped or checkered pattern.

This invention is designed to produce a cloth having a lining of cloudy pattern, in imitation of a leopard-skin, or a iiamme pattern, in imitation of liames.

The invention consists of a textile fabric having a face of woolen or other cloth and a lining woven thereon made of a series of yarns of irregular thickness, the thicker portions of the yarns having longer nap than the other portions, so as to form, when different colors are used, a cloudy or amme pattern of irregular design.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l represents a side view of a yarn as employed for manufacturing'my improved fabric. Figs. 2 and 3 are back views, showing the fabric respectively before and after gigging; and Fig. 4 is a diagram illustrating a section of the same on the line a: 00, Fig; 3, with the nap erect.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

A in the drawings represents the face of the cloth, of woolen, worsted, or other material, with which the lining B is woven, forming a part of the same fabric.

In the weaving of the lining portion'are employed yarns G of irregular thickness, one

irregular yarn is obtained from a roving of different widthsproduced by the doffe? of the cading-mahhine, the alternately narrower and l wider roving being then twisted in the spin ning-mule without being stretched finer. This operation of twisting Without drawing liner of which is shown in detail in Fig. l. This` has the effect of twisting the fine places harder without putting the twist into the thick places, which are left soft.

The yarn so obtained is either used singly or twisted with other threads of different kinds, so as to form every variety of pattern by using different colors in different proportions.

In weaving the lining portion of the cloth the yarns G are not arranged therein in regular order, but so that an irregular disposition of the heavier portions is obtained, as shown in Fig. 2. The thicker and softer portions of the yarns project above the surrounding surface of the cloth, and are thus easily pulled up by the teazles of the gigging-machine, forming a furry nap. The teazles' act upon the projecting parts o`f the yarns before they raise the nap on the remaining surface, and bring out thereby a longer nap, as illustrated by Fig. 4, which forms when laid a clouded spot at every thick place in the yarn, as shown in Fig. 3.

As the yarns are irregularly disposed an irregular cloudy effect-is the result.

For the cloudy pattern the teazles act transversely on the yarns, while. for the flamme pattern the teazles are applied in the same direction as that of the yarns.

The body of the lining, with its differentlycolored yarns of irregular thickness, is thus transformed by the tcazles into a furry nap of unequal lengths, forming a cloudy or iiamme pattern, which is the characteristic feature of this fabric.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. Asa new article of manufacture, a textile fabric having a wool or worsted face and a back or lining with yarns of irregular thickness and nap of different lengths, substan- In testimony that I elaim the foregoing as tially as set forth. my invention I have signed' my name, in presv2. As a new larticle of manufacture, a teX- ence of two Witnesses, this 7th day of January, tile fabric for overeoatings, Ste., consisting of 1880. 5 a wool or Worsted face and a hack or lining Woven thereon, said lining containing differ- ALEX. M. FYFE. ently-colored yarns of irregular thickness and having nap of dit'erent lengths, forming an Witnesses: irregular cloudy or lamme pattern, substan- A. C. MILLER,

1o tially as herein specified. F. G. FINCKE. 

